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Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG) is a 501(c)3 organization that runs impactful pro bono projects across the country in the areas of reproductive justice and health equity, immigrants’ rights, climate change and environmental justice, and racial justice. We are a community of 125,000 lawyers, law students, and activists fighting to ensure equal rights, equal opportunities, and equal justice under the law.

We work directly with corporate legal departments and large law firms to increase the impact of our programs and serve more clients. In 2023, we leveraged more than 51,000 hours and more than $24 million worth of pro bono legal services from our pro bono partners.

All opportunities are available for remote participation and volunteers will be provided training and oversight.

 
 

We also offer pro bono opportunities for individual attorneys, law students, and legal professionals to participate in several of our programs. Click here for more information about current opportunities.

L4GG’s Pro Bono Programs in the News

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Group Honors 4 BigLaw Firms, Comcast For Pro Bono Work
Group Honors 4 BigLaw Firms, Comcast For Pro Bono Work

Lawyers for Good Government has honored four BigLaw firms for their pro bono efforts this year in human rights, climate change, reproductive health and racial justice.

The nonprofit organization said Wednesday that Kirkland & Ellis LLP had received the 2023 Pro Bono Paragon Award for its commitment and contributions to the pro bono programs of Lawyers for Good Government or L4GG.

Op Ed: Biden’s high-tech border wall unworthy of a country where migrants hope to find shelter
Op Ed: Biden’s high-tech border wall unworthy of a country where migrants hope to find shelter

It may not be made of concrete-filled steel, but it sends the same message: The Biden administration has built a technological wall at the Southern border. Only those who can navigate a glitchy appointment lottery on a smartphone app can now present themselves at ports of entry to seek safety.

It’s in full breach of statutory and international law. This leaves the most vulnerable migrants stuck, waiting in horrific conditions for a day that may literally never come. If Biden’s asylum ban is put into effect, this might be the most hope they ever have.

Traci Feit Love continues to deliver pro bono services while negotiating through the trauma and injustices she witnesses
Traci Feit Love continues to deliver pro bono services while negotiating through the trauma and injustices she witnesses

Lawyers have been organizing in large numbers during the last six years to offer pro bono legal services to immigrants, racial minorities and small businesses affected by COVID-19. The new post-Roe landscape is no different.

Among the significant forces behind this pro bono organizing effort is Lawyers for Good Government, a nonprofit that grew out of a popular Facebook group started by Traci Feit Love in 2016. In this interview, I talk with Love about the work she continues to do with unstoppable zeal. She paused long enough to explain that her drive is also a way of coping with the injustices she witnesses in the world.

L4GG's Lauren Worsek on PBI's Pro Bono Happy Hour
L4GG's Lauren Worsek on PBI's Pro Bono Happy Hour

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has given rise to many legal needs for those in Ukraine. In this episode, Nihad Mansour, Assistant Director, Law Firm Pro Bono Project® interviews Lauren Worsek, Director of Pro Bono Initiatives at Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG). Hear more about L4GG’s pro bono program offering assistance to those in Ukraine and how law firms and corporations can get involved.

Kirkland & Ellis, Lawyers for Good Government Lead Pro Bono Effort to Help Ukrainian Refugees Apply for Temporary Protected Status
Kirkland & Ellis, Lawyers for Good Government Lead Pro Bono Effort to Help Ukrainian Refugees Apply for Temporary Protected Status

Kirkland & Ellis and Lawyers for Good Government, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, are coordinating a pro bono legal effort to help Ukrainian refugees in the U.S. as they seek temporary protected status, an immigration status that allows them to stay in the country until at least October 2023.

PayPal Atty's Love Of Service Extends To Ukrainian Clinic
PayPal Atty's Love Of Service Extends To Ukrainian Clinic

Lawyers for Good Government and Kirkland & Ellis LLP are spearheading the pro bono clinic, officially known as the TPS Pro Bono Project for Ukraine, by first training attorneys on the immigration paperwork, then matching them with Ukrainians who are looking for help with the application process.